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*NYSE resumes trade after three-hour halt. July 8- U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Wednesday as market turmoil in China eclipsed Greece's debt crisis, while the New York Stock Exchange suffered a major outage. The NYSE, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc, resumed trade late in the session after a technical problem forced a suspension for more than three...

Stocks closed at session highs Monday, logging their best one-day rally in almost two weeks, boosted by Ben Bernanke's earlier comments that the Fed may continue its easy monetary policy if the jobs market continues to show signs of weakness. Stocks are on track to post their best quarter since 1998.